...Trans Theory as Gender Theory In “The Time Has Come to Think about Gayle Rubin,” the author reflects on the contributions of Rubin's work to the fields of queer and feminist studies. The author argues that Rubin's analysis of sexuality and gender in the context of kinship systems provides...

... Contrary to Marx and Freud, fetishism is not primarily an error but a central semiotic dimension of social life at is most normal—that is, where people of different ranks and social backgrounds struggle to define their relationships with each other. Hence, not even theory itself is a disembodied...

...Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory ...

...Theory In this chapter, Kornbluh contends that Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic project of reading the Real, the third and most notoriously elusive of Lacan’s three orders of psychic experience, can serve as the groundwork for an altogether new type of materialist literary criticism, a criticism...